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That's the reasons of several. None of them is reasonably reliable, but checking on different sources of different political leaning should remove the bias and leave the chronicle.

For sure if a news is present on only one source it isn't reliable - unless the news is of a extremely localized nature (i.e. happened in a small town and has small political significance), in that case probably only the local journals are interested.

Also big newspapers still have some credibility to defend, albeit less and less, while sensationalistic sites, aggregators and blogs are the usual nest of hoaxes and scams.

If it's in two or three newspapers, it's probably still fake. Even if it's in a dozen, it's probably fake. They're all greedily lapping up each others diarrhea and recycling it into new sh*t, without doing any fact-checking or source-consulting in between. The only way it would not be fake, is if it's covered very differently by multiple news sources, in such a way that it's clear they all individually gathered the news.

Of course, I didn't explicitly stated it but of course. I often check if the sources share the same IP space or are owned by the same holding just to be safe - in Italy we have a bunch of sites and blogs that ultimately are owned by the same "movement, not party" despite being written differently, thus giving the impression that the news is real. And they usually write of chemtrails, subdermal chips and HAARP related news

It is like other kind of abuses in schools, churches, police... Yes, up and a while something pops up and there is a scandal, but people need to trust those "institutions" so the biggest part still remain hidden.

And believe me... something like the news opening the thread (or even worst) is not that improbable as you think.

M.D.V.

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But I do know by very close and trustful sources (some thing even self seen / experienced), it should not be like that but this is the world we live in

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#SupportHeForSheGovernment can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft BensonYou must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun

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